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Famous Dave’s BBQ Is Opening Tomorrow

I got a peak inside Famous Dave’s BBQ (on 47th btw. 6+7th) yesterday, and it looks pretty damn scary like they are ready to go. (It’s as if Brother Jimmy’s and TGI Friday’s collided into each other going 100 mph.) Very exciting! For all you fans out there (and I know you exist), tomorrow is the big grand opening. And, for Midtown Lunch I think this is the end of the line… unless business is slow and they decide to introduce an under $10 lunch special (or give out free food!)

Zach, this may be a tasty place for you to eat but, like Dallas BBQ, they are basically purveyors of liquid smoke and the most horrendous compilation of chemicals since Vietnam or Love Canal. Check out their gastronomic shitshow:

To be perfectly honest (and I was a Boy Scout 60 years ago, when ‘honest’ was COOL), the physical health, and/or the culinary health of New Yawk City folks is really NOT on the top of my list of concerns.

However, if you folks there in the Big Apple choose to patronize FD’s BBQ – - – then you deserve whatever fate may befall you.

22 of their menu items contain MSG, nearly all their sauces are made with HFCS, This place might as well be the Crappy-Chinese-takeout of BBQ. the chicken wildrice soup contains: propylene glycol (antifreeze and aircraft deicer) and silicon dioxide (sand). This my friends, is a culinary masterpiece.

I had to break out the MSDS sheets just to figure out what some of this stuff is in the soup!

Never eaten at Famous Daves, but i’m sure it’s healthier than cart food. Not that I care (i eat from carts twice a week), but it may be funny to find out exactly what ingredients they use at the Biryani, Bulgogi, or Halal carts. I’m sure MSG and liquid smoke wouldn’t look so bad after that!!

A little Polysorbate 60 would do you people good. It might offset some of the physical and mental effects of eating from those pathogen-infested food trucks.

Then again, it might not. It may be too late.

Famous Dave’s is a reputable purveyor of adequate, yet not exciting, BBQ. And they use real beef, pork and chicken. Another positive change for those used to the random animal matter you call “street meat.”

There seemed to be a reasonably good crowd for lunch today. The food was very good- even though they messed up our orders a bit (blame that on opening day jitters), they brought the correct items, free of charge. We got a free sample of their famous fries, which were good. 3 guys, $125 without tip, and we had enough food leftover (well, at least 2 of us did) to last 2 days.